TestLink

here a document regarding a CentOS installation, hope can help
https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTR ... -on-CentOS

please provide feedback

Using Grafana is not complicated and a good investment, while the excel way is ... well not a good thing to do IMHO.

The only way to create a custom report is to write it from scratch. My suggestion is to understand what is the data you want to extract, create the queries (views, store procedures) and use Grafana as visualization tool. This approach has some minor drawbacks: - you will need to create your users al...

Please get latest code from github branch testlink_1_9_20_fixed, do fresh install, retest and provide feedback

Would you mind to provide feedback?

Your installation is broken.
Do a fresh install and retest

Create a test suite with a test case, create a test plan , build and execute this case as blocked , then check your db

If this is happening you have some strange config issue
The standard code for Blocked is b

What kind of authentication are you using? Native? LDAP?

IMHO 1.9.6 is not an option when 1.9.20 has been released

have you checked in the CHANGELOG of Testlink Version > 1.9.7 to understand if this has been fixed?

Great to know is fixed, it's always a good idea and timesaver to look for similar issues on mantis

you can get 1.9.20-fixed and use as starting point the feature
Execution Activity (for Test project)

You need to use the testlink classes that deals with requirements.
It will be great if you will share your plugin with the community

What is your testlink version?
have you checked the testlink logs?
have you checked the php logs?
have you checked the apache logs?

Are you able to reproduce starting from scratch?